Son of Fortune
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In mid-1860s San Francisco, sixteen-year-old Aiden gains a hoped-for chance at a change in fortune when he wins a ship in a poker game, but soon he is involved in Peru's savage guano trade and the exploitation of its Chinese workers.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers, Random House, Inc., 2013.
Year Published: 2013
Description: 391 p.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0375864563
SUBJECTS
Conduct of life -- Fiction.
Seafaring life -- Fiction.
Commerce -- Fiction.
Race relations -- Fiction.
Chinese -- Peru -- Fiction.
Peru -- History -- 1829-1919 -- Fiction.
San Francisco (Calif.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.